Philip Abelson
Philip Hauge Abelson was an American physicist, scientific editor and science writer. Trained as a nuclear physicist, he co-discovered the element neptunium, worked on isotope separation in the Manhattan Project, and wrote the first study of nuclear marine propulsion for submarines. He later worked on a broad range of scientific topics and related public policy, including organic geochemistry, paleobiology and energy policy.
27 April 1913
Born on the same birth date (27 April 1913): Irving Adler • Luz Long
Born on the same birth day (27 April): Anna Chancellor • Basil A. Paterson • Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus • Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti • Fethullah Gülen • Frank Bainimarama • Irving Adler • Josef Hickersberger • Richard Perham • Walter Lantz • William Hudson (engineer)
Born in the same month (April 1913): Antoni Clavé • Charles Vanik • Dave Brown (rugby league, born 1913) • Dieter Grau • Diosa Costello • Irving Adler • Jules Léger • Kermit Tyler • Louise Currie • Luz Long • Memos Makris • Nicolas Grunitzky • Norman Parkinson • Oleg Cassini • Per Borten • Rose Murphy • Rosemary Lane (actress) • Ruth Smith (artist)